Improvement in cultivators



waited seat ROBERT D. CRAFT, OF LA PORTE, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 91,718, dated J um 22, 1869.

IMPROVEMELI T IN CULTIVA'IORS.

The Schedule referred to in these LettersPatent and making part'of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. CRAFT, of La Porte, in the county of LaPorte, in the State of Indiana, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in (Jultivators; and I do hereby declare that the'followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which-..

. Figure 1 is a perspective view, and

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

My improvement relates to the class of cultivators which is drawn by twohorses, and the points on which I have made my improvements on formermachines, will appear from the claims hereinafter to be set forth. I

In the drawings- AA are the side-rails of the frame, to which areattached the top cross-pieces B B, and the lower crosspieces 0 O of theframe, by the bolts. f f f f.

D is the tongue, the but-end of which is attached between the rearcross-pieces B and 0, and is passed between the .front cross-pieces Band G, and held in its place by bolts.

E E E E are the shovels, which are made fast to the beams a c a a bybolts, in such a manner that they scrape between the rows of corn,cleaning out all the weeds, and loosening the ground next to the hillsof corn.

1) are the rods attached to the beams c a a a, and to the lowercross-pieces O G, and tongue D, and brace the same from each way.

c c are the braces which are attached on the outside of the beams on a aa, and to the back end of the siderails A Awith bolts, in such a mannerthat they brace the beams a a a a.

of which handles, F F,'the cultivator is guided and shifted about atpleasure.

When desired, the forward shovels maybe thrown nearer together byremoving the bolts b b, and pressing in the front end of the side-railsA A, and by replacing the bolts 12 11 outside thereof, the shovels E Eare held secure at any distance apart desired.

When desired, the shovels may be thrown in such a manner that they rundeeper, by loosening the bolt on the back of the beams 00 a, anddropping the'points of shovels down, and so may be adjusted in anymanner desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The side-rails'A A, cross-piecesB B, O G, tongue D, shovels E E E E,rods 1;, braces c c, brace G, and adjuster 0, respectively constructedand arranged, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to- ROBERT D. CRAFT.

Witnesses:

' ROBERT A. Hews,

' M. NYE.

